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Cleopatra Jones is a 1973 American blaxploitation film directed by Jack Starrett. Tamara Dobson stars as an undercover government agent who uses the day job of supermodel as her cover and an excuse to travel to exotic places. Bernie Casey, Shelley Winters and Antonio Fargas also feature. The film has been described as being primarily an action film, but also partially a comedy with a spoof tone. It was followed by…
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The blaxploitation cycle of the early 1970s was, in many ways, Hollywood’s somewhat awkward attempt to appear “cool” to a burgeoning, anti-establishment Boomer audience. By appropriating themes of Black empowerment and anti-racism, these films offered a veneer of “sticking it to the Man” that was commercially palatable. A select few within the genre pushed further, layering in feminist ideals, and a prime example of…More
